Think that year, when the Monkey King was the Monkey King in the sky, he called himself "old" when he saw Sanqing, which was really familiar. That day he jumped in the air to watch, and he knew that the place where he was going to make trouble was called Sanqingguan. However, when the Monkey King led his two younger brothers to steal vegetarian food, he pointed to Sanqing and asked what the Buddha was. Eight quit laughed.
"Sanqing also don't know, but know what a bodhisattva is! In the middle is yuanshi county Tianzun, on the left is Lingbao Daojun, and on the right is Taishang Laojun. "
In the story of Journey to the West, Pig Bajie is a famous foodie. When he saw a lot of vegetarian food, he was asked by the Monkey King to sit down and enjoy it. He couldn't help climbing onto the platform and arching the old man's mouth. Three people became Sanqing, the Monkey King added:
"Brother, eating is a small matter, and spilling the cat is a big deal. When I first came in, there was a small door on the right. There are filthy animals in it, and it must be the place where the grain circulates. You send him there. "
Where is the food circulation place? It turns out that the Monkey King used to be tongue-tied, so he named a big toilet. Pig eight quit to Sanqing icon on his shoulder and prayed:
"Sanqing, Sanqing, I said, listen: you have come from afar, and you are used to killing goblins and want to enjoy the support, so you have no peace. Lend you a seat and stop for a while. You've been waiting for a long time, and you've got a hair pit for the time being. Your home is very useful on weekdays. Be a clean Taoist. Today, I can't help but enjoy some filth and be a smelly Buddha! "
In The Journey to the West's story, why are the Monkey King and Zhu Bajie so bold to attack Sanqing? Pig Bajie looked at the Sanqing icon in front of him. Why did he wash half a skirt with smelly water? Is it just to show the clumsiness of Pig Bajie?
Actually, it is not! The destruction of Buddha in Chechi country is like the "three absolutely destroyed Buddha" of that year. It is generally believed that the Emperor Buzhou of South Station took the lead in destroying buddhas, temples, monks, scriptures and statues.
"Three Extinctions to Destroy the Buddha" refers to the three events of Wu Tai in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Tang Wuzong. The names of posthumous title or temples of these incumbents all bear the word "Wu". If we add the extermination of Buddha in the post-Zhou Shizong period, it will be collectively called "three martial arts and one extermination of Buddha".
Speaking of these emperors' actions to destroy Buddha, in Westward Journey to the World, Fu Yi advocated that "heaven and earth are close to teachers" and that "ceremony is more important than home, while Buddha is a monk, and husband resists the son of heaven and follows the body" is one of the reasons.
The worship of Buddhism in history has led to too many people entering Buddhism, resulting in Buddhism becoming a monk, no one paying taxes, and the empty state treasury, which is probably the direct reason for the demise of Buddhism. This is probably what Pig Bajie said, "Everyday home is infinitely beneficial".
The action of exterminating Buddha in history is worse than that of exterminating Buddha in China. Even the Buddha statue of Tathagata was smashed and his head was thrown into the cesspit. The Monkey King urged Pig Bajie to put the icon of Sanqing in the place where the grain circulates, which is probably the same idea.
And why did the Monkey King treat Sanqing as a bodhisattva and Pig Bajie as dirty clothes? It was probably suggesting that no one, whether Buddhist or Taoist, could be clean in the face of religious disasters. Only peaceful coexistence is the normal way, which is why when the Monkey King left, he advised the emperor to unite the three religions.